Beautiful.
I am reading the whole thread right now anyway :hug3:

I KNOW! These quotes just "send me".

Another from Jeremiah off the top from mem, paraphrased:
(This is the one that changed my life 5 yrs ago...)

Let he who is rich not boast of his riches. And let he who is strong not boast of his strength. Nor let he who is wise not boast of his wisdom; but he who must boast...let him boast of this...that he knows and understands me, so saith the Lord.

? 9:23 ?

Gradually, you will come to know God's loving, sheltering will is within you
and about you, and this realization will give you a consciousness of security
and understanding.

~ Cora Fillmore, 1937..co founder of Unity Church, part of the
New Thought movement. (Can be googled)

‘There is no religion higher than truth.’

Motto of the Theosophical Society.

That's a great quote !

"The one who is not acquainted yet with sacrifice does not understand Love"
Master Beinsa Douno (from the book "The Wellspring of Good")

If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life you must get close to, or even into,
the thing that has them.
They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.
They are a great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very centre of reality.
If you are close to it, the spray will wet you; if you are not you will remain dry.

~CS Lewis, 1943

A Persona evolves only by the interaction with other Personae, either human or animal, and this process cannot be circumvented by shunning human affection or simply by worshipping some concept of Deity.

Joan Grant

I know that those who are further evolved than I am are on a rung above me in the ladder of evolution because their insight is more accurate, their comprehension more compassionate, their hearts more commodious: therefore I say with every volt of energy I can utilise, every extension of my affections, that it is not only futile but blasphemous to postulate a God who is not more understanding and therefore more gentle than one is oneself.

Joan Grant

We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness

-Thich Nhat Hanh